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Now the nearest drone is 5 hours away rather than the nearest unit.

I'd take a 387 over an 800!

What EMUs are currently spare? Anything similar to the Electrostar family? Could they remove the remaining Cardiff 800 diagrams and make them EMUs?

It will be a "return" to Bristol for some drivers, who will have signed the route before when some FGW/GWR services were driven by drivers "leased" from TfW.

Apologies, I knew that but was being facetious. Let's just say if this was happening in Japan (which I am guessing it probably wouldn't in the first place) there would be extreme shame and culpability in Japanese work culture.

I am pretty sure the only similarities Hitachi in the UK and Japan share are a name.

Do you have any more information about that?

Quite but surely it should be programmable not to? Or maybe don't say it at all.

I think the most random/stupid "change here" is annouced on trains arriving at Reading from Paddington which advise to change for the Railair to Heathrow.

I can't wait to hear how much Kemi suddnely loves and cares about East Midlands road projects in 3, 2, 1....

Shame the TE or RPI wasn't as enthusiastic about just issuing the TOD on their Star Mobile machine about fobbing off OP about appealing.

As a member of train crew I can't help but have done some thought into some of the cabs we sit in since yesterday's events, especially on older traction.

When are CCSTs going away and what about tickets with TfL journeys?

For station coffee that wasn't a SSP franchise, I always thought AMT was good. The station location I used is long gone now though.

Some of these buses are parked on the Silver Zone side of Bristol Airport now.